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Terrance Hayes

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November 18, 1971 in Columbia, South Carolina, The United States

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Poetry

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Terrance Hayes is the author of four books of poetry, including Lighthead (Penguin, 2010), which won the National Book Award for Poetry; Wind in a Box (2006); Hip Logic (2002), which won the 2001 National Poetry Series and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award; and Muscular Music (1999), winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award.

He is an Associate Professor of creative writing at Carnegie Mellon University and lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with his wife, the poet Yona Harvey, and their children.

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Books by Terrance Hayes

Average rating: 4.20 · 911 ratings · 108 reviews · 9 distinct works

	Lighthead 4.11 avg rating — 289 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Wind in a Box 4.24 avg rating — 259 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Hip Logic 4.25 avg rating — 172 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Muscular Music 4.16 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Ploughshares Winter 2010-11 Guest Edited by Terrance Hayes 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Who are the Trees 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011	My rating:
	State of the Union: Fifty Political Poems by Joshua Beckman, Matthew Zapruder (Editor ), Mary Ruefle 4.15 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Mipoesias by Didi Menendez (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Robert Walker, Andrew Demcak (Goodreads Author) 4.50 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	West Branch Spring/Summer 2005 Number 56 Poetry Issue by James Harms, Karen Kovacik, John Gery 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2005	My rating:

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Quotes by Terrance Hayes

“I am carrying the whimper
you can hear when the mouth is collapsed, the wisdom
of monkeys. Ask a glass of water why it pities
the rain. Ask the lunatic yard dog why it tolerates the leash.
Brothers and sisters, when you spend your nights
out on a limb, there’s a chance you’ll fall in your sleep.”
― Terrance Hayes

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“Look, the world is everywhere: satellites, end tables, the pink and white poinsettias outside the church; reunions and degrees. All those radiant asterisks . . . Soon it will all make sense.”
― Terrance Hayes, Wind in a Box

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“This is what it means to believe in ascension and fear climbing.”
― Terrance Hayes

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